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Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility

The new Electron Ion Collider will bring major benefits to the regional economy and offer unprecedented research opportunities to Stony Brook faculty.

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Tethered Chem Combos Could Revolutionize Artificial Photosynthesis

Stony Brook University graduate student Lei Wang is part of a team of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) who have doubled the efficiency of a chemical combo that captures light and splits water molecules...

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Perseverance Pays Off for International Engineering Alum

Haitian-born Jean Clifford Brutus was thrilled to discover that he was the cover story of Minority Engineer’s spring 2019 issue, but it might not have ever happened had he let a rejection letter from Stony Brook...

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Christopher Hayes ’19 Researches Solar Energy at Brookhaven National Lab

Chemistry was the subject in school that Christopher Hayes enjoyed the most. However, the Long Island native entered Stony Brook University unsure of his course of study. This past spring, he graduated with degrees in...

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Building a Network for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

From the rooftop of the decommissioned Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Health Sciences Tower at Stony Brook University —...

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Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Stony Brook’s Margaret Schedel, in collaboration with Brookhaven Lab Center for Functional Nanomaterials scientist Kevin Yager and Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Melissa Clarke, has generated novel...

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Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

New research on nanowires that could facilitate the harvesting of solar energy has been published by a team of scientists from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory...

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Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

Materials scientist Mircea Cotlet, an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) has been named one of seven...

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‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Scientists studying plant cell walls—structural supports that help plants overcome the downward pull of gravity—have discovered mechanistic details of a protein involved in the assembly of lignin, a key cell-wall...

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BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

New data from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory‘s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail—and complexity—to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the...

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Discovery Opens the Possibility of Using Sunlight to Turn a Greenhouse Gas into Fuel

A team of scientists has discovered a single-site, visible-light-activated catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into “building block” molecules that could be used for creating useful chemicals. The...

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Bingjie Zhang Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship

Stony Brook University Student Bingjie Zhang is the recipient of the 14th annual Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship. The Asian Pacific American Association (APAA) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory...

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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Rainer Weiss to Discuss Gravitational Waves at Stony Brook Southampton

Imagine a boat sailing across a pond. As it moves, ripples disturb the water. The bigger and faster the boat, the greater the ripples, and the more the water is disturbed, along with any objects within. If the pond is...

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Scientists Take Important Step Toward Understanding Higgs Boson Decay

The Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays. This is predicted to be the most common way for Higgs bosons to...

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Stony Brook Alum Thrives at Brookhaven National Laboratory

When Daniel Cacace ’15 first came to visit the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory during Summer Sundays as a young boy, he already felt there was something special about the Lab that...

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Knapp Chair Esther Sans Takeuchi Wins European Inventor Award for Her Compact Batteries

One of the world’s leading energy storage researchers, Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor Esther Sans Takeuchi has won the 2018 European Inventor Award in the category “Non-EPO countries.” The European...

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From Face Recognition to Phase Recognition: Neural Network Captures Atomic-Scale Rearrangements

If you want to understand how a material changes from one atomic-level configuration to another, it’s not enough to capture snapshots of before-and-after structures. It’d be better to track details of the transition as...

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Engineering Professor Karen Chen-Wiegart Receives NSF CAREER Award for Her Research at SBU and BNL

Karen Chen-Wiegart, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering (MSCE) in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the 2018 National Science Foundation...

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Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility

Tethered Chem Combos Could Revolutionize Artificial Photosynthesis

Perseverance Pays Off for International Engineering Alum

Christopher Hayes ’19 Researches Solar Energy at Brookhaven National Lab

Building a Network for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

Transforming Advanced Nanoscience Data into Interactive Art

Nanowire Research Could Advance Harvesting of Solar Energy

Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

Discovery Opens the Possibility of Using Sunlight to Turn a Greenhouse Gas into Fuel

Bingjie Zhang Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Rainer Weiss to Discuss Gravitational Waves at Stony Brook Southampton

Scientists Take Important Step Toward Understanding Higgs Boson Decay

Stony Brook Alum Thrives at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Knapp Chair Esther Sans Takeuchi Wins European Inventor Award for Her Compact Batteries

From Face Recognition to Phase Recognition: Neural Network Captures Atomic-Scale Rearrangements

Engineering Professor Karen Chen-Wiegart Receives NSF CAREER Award for Her Research at SBU and BNL

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